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TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have arrested four people suspected of planning to sabotage
one of the country’s nuclear sites, the chief of Iran’s nuclear program said yesterday.

The nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, who was foreign minister for three years under the previous
president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, warned that “some countries” are “not happy” now that Iran is
trying to reach a settlement with the West in the 10-year-long nuclear standoff.

“They are implementing sabotage plots,” Salehi said, according to the conservative Tasnim news
agency. He did not elaborate.

The four arrested were most likely employees of Iran’s nuclear program, as Salehi said they had
been working inside nuclear facilities. “Of course, these people were under our control from the
very beginning, but we allowed them to proceed a bit and arrested them right on time,” Salehi said,
adding that “a couple of sabotage acts had been foiled.”

Several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated in the past years by mysterious hit
squads that Iran says were sent by Britain, Israel and the United States. Israel and the United
States have cooperated in successfully installing a virus, called Stuxnet, in switches in Iran’s
largest enrichment facility in Natanz. Stuxnet was discovered in 2010 when the virus spread to
other computers.

Salehi said he had issued special instructions to the organization’s security forces, as well as
the police and the armed forces, to prevent further acts of sabotage.